French film paying hommage to American Cinema or American films centred on French themes – The Artist, Midnight in Paris, Hugo.

Young protagonists playing detective with traces left by parent – Hugo (again) and Extremely loud and incredibly close covered what I’ve watched prior to the ceremony this year. Perhaps I ‘ve screened too many arthouse type of late, so I have my biases and let see if the results with overlap my preference.

Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse and now Whitney Houston are sadly pointing to a converging theme for certain PSAs.

My pick to share with my readers are:

If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful – a duet from a couple of decades ago, it pops out from time to time on the radio when I was in North America, though not necessarily as often in Asia. If anyone would ever got a video version of the song, they should ping back at me on this blog. The chance is slim.

The 2nd selection is even older, probably equally not popular nor frequently heard. But then why do I have to select for my readers if they can get her more popular numbers from elsewhere.

If You Say her voice is Beautiful, all that’s left are the far reaching reverberations.

The political economy of the war on Iraq so reads the caption of the work by Elvis Cheung at a graduation exhibition I saw in Hong Kong in 2011.

If I were to make a wish for the year of the dragon, it would be quite appropriate to paraphrase the No Blood for Oil into
No blood for goods
No blood for food
No blood for toys
No blood for clothes
No blood for Consumption
No blood for Peace
No blood for benefits of the petite minority

The list elongates to infinity.

No Blood for Oil - Elvis Cheung

If the absolute No appears unrealistic, can we at least get a bargin and swap “some sweat” for “NO blood“?